What Do Blind People See When They Dream
However blind people dreamed too.
What do blind people see when they dream. How blind people dream. For many it is like watching a movie in one s head. What do blind people see when they dream.
They remember what people and cars and sidewalk curbs and. To describe their dream immediately after waking up. Most blind people remember what it s like to see.
Blind people dream about much the same content as sighted people though the way they dream about it may be a little different. Of course we can work. It s just that their dreams were dissimilar to those of non blind participants.
If they experienced emotions during their dreams. When most people think about dreams they recognize the intense visual imagery created in the dreamscape. Nevertheless the visual experience plays a central role.
Each group got the same 3 questions. Blind people largely dream about the same things sighted people do. Simply put the longer they were able to see in their real lives the more images were in their dreams.
Can blind people work. Ask us anything i m lucy edwards. They don t have to construct a mental picture of the world from the ground up.
Their dreams have a mix of a lot of sensory information other than vision. If there were specific themes like flying or falling. Nevertheless the blind subjects had fewer rapid eye movements than the sighted subjects although they did have eye movements and these eye movements did correlate with visual dream recall.
My name is dr amit patel. One 1999 study looked at the dreams of 15 blind adults over a period of two months a total of 372 dreams. Dreams can contain all aspects of the senses from sight taste touch smell and sound.
My name is simon brown.
